Members

Luuk Croijmans. PhD candidate. How does increased crop diversity lead to higher arthropod biodiversity and enhanced ecosystem services?

 

Hanneke Suijkerbuijk. PhD candidate. Enhancing Brassica seed yield and quality: Understanding the role of herbivory in outcrossing through pollination and self-incompatibility.

 

Zoë Delamore. PhD candidate. Intricate interactions: investigating plant defence strategies to deal with multi-herbivore attack and their fitness consequences in Brassicaceae.

 

Sarah Kalisvaart. PhD candidate. The spitting image: ecological effects of a parasitoid virus through caterpillar oral secretions.

 

Maxence Longuemare. PhD candidate. Static but Plastic: Exploring plant strategies to deal with attack by multiple herbivores.

 

Laura Zuidema. PhD candidate. Evolution of growth-defence-reproduction trade-offs to multi-herbivore attack in the Brassicaceae plant family.

 

Gabriele Bolletta. PhD candidate. Crop diversity in space and time to enhance biocontrol of insect herbivores. Transition to sustainable ecology-based agriculture (CropMix).

 

Andi Dirham Nasruddin. PhD candidate. Crop diversity in space and time supports effective plant trait combinations that reduce herbivory and pathogen attack. Transition to sustainable ecology-based agriculture (CropMix).

 

Nina Xiaoning Zhang. Post-doc. Plant mediated interactions induced by omnivorous insects. Plant physiology of induced responses, insect performance and community responses.

 

Gabriel Joachim. Technician. Plant defence to attack by multiple herbivores. Insect behavior, community ecology and macroevolution of plant-insect interactions.

   

Bart Burger. Technician. Transition to sustainable ecology-based agriculture (CropMix). Insect and bird biodiversity, weed prevalence, pathogen and pest presence, soil communities and ecosystem sevices.

 

Angelo Grievink. Technician. Transition to sustainable ecology-based agriculture (CropMix). Insect and bird biodiversity, weed prevalence, pathogen and pest presence, soil communities and ecosystem sevices.

 

Yvonne Florissen. Project coordinator. Transition to sustainable ecology-based agriculture.

 

 

Former group members